Year File · 1956 42 cases on file
Year File

1956 · paranormal events

42 catalogued cases recorded in 1956.

Featured · 1956

Source document: PURSUE doc 196
UFO 1956

1956 UAP Sighting — AARO Records

Unknown location

A KC-97 aircraft accident occurred in 1956, resulting in the deaths of 11 Air Force members. This incident was conflated with reports of “alien bodies” at the Roswell Army Air Force hospital.

Source document: PURSUE doc 213
UFO 1956

1956 UAP Sighting — AARO Records (D213P22)

Unknown location

A KC-97 aircraft accident occurred in 1956, resulting in the deaths of 11 Air Force members. This incident was conflated with reports of “alien bodies” at the Roswell Army Air Force hospital.

Source document: PURSUE doc 214
UFO 1956

1956 UAP Sighting — AARO Records (D214P22)

Unknown location

A KC-97 aircraft accident occurred in 1956, resulting in the deaths of 11 Air Force members. This incident was conflated with reports of “alien bodies” at the Roswell Army Air Force hospital.

Source document: PURSUE doc 8
UFO 1956

1956 UAP Sighting — FBI Files

Unknown location

A letter was received from the Director of National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena requesting information about the FBI's involvement with unidentified flying objects. The committee is a privately funded civilian group. The FBI has been aware of Donald Keyhoe, the c

Source document: 65_HS1-834228961_62-HQ-83894_Section_8
UFO 1956

Alamogordo, New Mexico UFO Sighting (August 31, 1956) — FBI Files

Alamogordo, New Mexico

FBI files detail a 1956 unidentified object sighting in Alamogobordo, New Mexico, reported by a McDonnell Aircraft Corporation employee.

Source document: 65_HS1-834228961_62-HQ-83894_SUB_A
UFO 1956

Alamogordo, New Mexico UFO Sighting, 1956 — FBI Files

Alamogordo, New Mexico

A cold war / blue book era case from Alamogordo, New Mexico. James Stokes, an engineer at the Air Force missile development center, reported that ten autos were stalled on a desert highway between Alamogordo and White Sands Proving Grounds.

Archive · 1956